19, 1983. While he wasn’t even the main speaker for the event, Lincoln’s brief message on a "new birth of freedom" has come to be regarded as one of the most eloquent and memorable speeches in U.S. history. "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this ...
19, 1983. While he wasn’t even the main speaker for the event, Lincoln’s brief message on a "new birth of freedom" has come to be regarded as one of the most eloquent and memorable speeches in U.S. history. "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this ...
In speeches he urged college students to become politically involved. In 2022, President Joe Biden awarded Simpson the Presidential Medal of Freedom. One of Simpson's closest friends was a Democrat, Norman Mineta, a Congressman from California who also served as Commerce Secretary under President ...
Be sure to check back often because we plan on putting unpublished speeches of Brigham Young here, as well as other controversial talks they’ve given in the past, i.e. Bruce McConkie’s 1982 notorious speech, ‘Don’t Pray Directly to Jesus’. The one thing we request – please, don...
But with all the eloquent speeches, none roused the room like Winfrey’s, who had the crowd giving her repeated ovations as she issued a warning — not once, but three times — to powerful men who abuse women: “Their time is up! ” She ended her barn-storming speech, in which she...
"We went on campaign trips, we made speeches, we went to the blessing of the fleet or the opening of the headquarters," she told a House Oral History project in 2007). "We certainly went out on Election Day and went to all the polling places, and we handed out literature and we ...
It was hailed in some quarters as "one of the best political speeches of our time". Chanelle Pearson Chanelle Pearson is an actress and film producer. Helen Pearson Age: 65 Helen Pearson is a British actress who has been in three major soap operas, EastEnders (during 1990 as April ...
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He knew full well and displayed in his many splendid speeches and addresses that one unerring purpose of freedom and of union ran through her whole history; that there was no accident in it all; that all the generations, from theMayflowerdown, marched to one measure and followed one flag;...
The voting process in the state was a mess – with poorly designed ballots and counting irregularities abound. Both George W. Bush and Al Gore both declared victory in the state before election night was over, kicking off one of the most drawn-out election results in the nation’s history....